The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-11-17

Commissioner Milier's Annual Pa.
per--A Mass Of interesting Facte
CLEANED 1horofroun.

Commissions Miller's Annual Pa.
per--A Macs Of Interesting Facte
Cleaned Therefrom.
The report OF Miller, commissioner OF in.
ternal revenue. has just been issued, and
some OF the more significant facts con
tanned in it which have bearing upon the
subject OF the surplus revenue are these:
It is estimated that 100000, 900 will
be collected from the internal revenue
taxation during the current fiscal
year, provided there shall be
no change in existing rates OF taxation.
The collections for the last fiscal year com.
pared with those for the preceding fiscal
year show there has been decrease in the
amount OF tax collected from spirits and
an increase in the receipts from the tax on
tobacco, iermented liquors, banks and
bankers and oleomargarine. The same
percentage OF increase is maintained for
the first three months of the current fiscal
year. The total cost OF collecting the in
ternal revenue tax was $4.065, 14S. or
about x per cent OF the am cunt collected.
This is about the usual percentage OF cost,
although there was a slight reaction in
favor OF the expense for the last fiscal
year. There were 456 Illicit distilleries
seized last year.
The commissioner recommends that an
additional head OF division be created to
carry out the provisions OF the oleomarga.
rine act. The total receipts for the first
year in which the law has been enforced
were almost $1,000, 900. Such result
was not anticipated. Practically the tax
has been in excess OF the two cents pro-
vided for by the law. By dividing the to-
tai receipts by the number OF pounds re-
moved for consumption or sale the tax
per pound is found to be 6.3 cents. The
number OF persons doing business under
the act has been reduced from 1902 to
1854.
SOME MORE FIGURES.
The reporter says:
Total receipts for the fiscal year were
$113, S29. 523, as compared with $116,.
9O2. $3.50 for 1886. The reduction OF the
number OF internal revenue districts has
very considerably lessened the cost OF col.
lecting the internal revenue taxes, and has
not in any manner been detrimental to
the interest Of the taxpayers, SO far as
no has been informed. The quantity OF
spirits produced and deposited in distillery
warehouses during the last fiscal year,
compared with 1886, distributed among
the different kinds known to the trade
was as follows: Increase in the produc.
ton OF rum, 1871 gallons; gin, 9O,4
gallons; high wines. 141 ,465 gall ons; pure
neutral or cologne spirits, 527 ,63S gallons;
total increase, 1,23O.746 gallons. De-
crease in the production of Bourbon whis
ky, 2,303. 1855 gallons; rye whisky. $685.
900 gallons: alcohol, 91O. S42 gallons; total
decrease, 3,743, SGT gallons; net decrease,
2,5l3 7S1 gallons. The quantity OF spir-
it's withdrawn, tax paid, from distillery
warehouses during the past fiscal year
compared with 1886 was: Decrease in
withdrawal of Bourbon whisky. 1917, 7O4
gallons; rye whisky, 41O,2O gallons; mis-
cellaneous, 26l, 704 gallons. talincrease
4,649. TOT gallons. Increase in withdrawal
of alcohol 955. OFT gallons; rum. 1O4,627
gallons; gin. So, 72O gallons; high wines,
10, GAL gallons; pure neutral or cologne
spirits. COG, 2O5. Total increase from
1856, 1913. 597 gallons. OF the quantity,
2,216.645 gallons OF domestic spirits ex.
ported and reimported during the year
upon payment of customs duty equal to
the internal revenue tax be added. The
quantity virtually withdrawn from distil.
lery warehouses during the year ended
June 80, 1887, is found to be $780,
iess than k''e during the ieO year isss'
including the 967 500 gallons reimported
and tax paid during that year. There are
of re-imported spirits liable to be returned
six or seven million gallons in foreign ware
houses. He recommends that section
$500 Revised Statutes be SO amended as
to exclude as an article subject to Gus.
toms duty all domestic spirits returned to
this country, and to provide for the collec-
ton OF the internal revenue tax due on
such spirits as shown by the marks and
brands on the packages at the time OF the
removal Of the spirits from the distiller's
warehouse.